In re C.M.
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Father appealed an order providing that he and mother share joint legal custody of their son, issued as an order terminating dependency jurisdiction under Welfare and Institutions Code section 362.4.
The Court of Appeal held that Family Code section 3044, and its rebuttable presumption against awarding sole or joint custody of a child to certain perpetrators of domestic violence, does not apply to dependency proceedings under section 300 et seq. The court also held that the juvenile court's decision to award joint legal custody in this case was not an abuse of discretion.
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